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Common Midas Concepts
Basic Features
Results
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- Results
- These are the variables accessible within the shell.
- Their name comes from the fact that many commands store their "computational results"
in these variables.
- Each result has a name and a value.
- Name is case-insensitive and usually appears in all upper-case.
- The value can be a numeric or string value.
- NeXtMidas also allows Tables and Objects as values.
- In X-Midas and NeXtMidas, results are not strongly-typed (i.e. they do not have
a type declared as would a variable in Java or C/C++). However it is possible to
specify the type used when a value is inserted or looked up in the results table.
(More will be said about this in later modules.)
- Most X-Midas and NeXtMidas commands will automatically try to substitute the
value of a result when given the name of a result; this is known as
Result Translation or Result Substitution.
- Using quotes around a name will prevent X-Midas or NeXtMidas from using
Result Translation.
- One way to force an X-Midas or NeXtMidas command to use the value of a result is
by prefixing the name with a caret (^), this is known as
Result Expansion.
- (More will be said about this in later modules.)
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